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Miss Ripon is a villager near Hetton, whose unruly horse kicks and kills John Andrew on the day of the fox hunt. Miss Ripon had no business riding the difficult horse, which had thrown and injured her earlier that day, but her father had been cynically trying to sell the horse for an unreasonable price and wanted to have it shown off. At the inquest, the traumatized Miss Ripon has to give evidence.
Miss Ripon Quotes in A Handful of Dust
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Chapter 3: Hard Cheese on Tony
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She hit him and the horse collected himself and bolted up the road into the village, but before he went one of his heels struck out and sent John into the ditch, where he lay bent double, perfectly still.
Everyone agreed that it was nobody’s fault.
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Miss Ripon Quotes in A Handful of Dust
The A Handful of Dust quotes below are all either spoken by Miss Ripon or refer to Miss Ripon . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 3: Hard Cheese on Tony
Quotes
She hit him and the horse collected himself and bolted up the road into the village, but before he went one of his heels struck out and sent John into the ditch, where he lay bent double, perfectly still.
Everyone agreed that it was nobody’s fault.
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